- Industry: Weather
- Number of terms: 60695
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
The American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, AMS has a membership of more than 14,000 professionals, ...
A cold, night wind of the mountains following the course of the Drôme River in southern France.
Industry:Weather
The Greek name for the northwest wind, which is cold in winter but hot and dry in summer. On the Tower of the Winds in Athens it is represented as an old man warmly clad and carrying what appears to be a fire-basket.
Industry:Weather
The Greek name for the northwest wind, which is cold in winter but hot and dry in summer. On the Tower of the Winds in Athens it is represented as an old man warmly clad and carrying what appears to be a fire-basket.
Industry:Weather
A warm south or southeast wind in advance of a depression moving eastward across the southern Mediterranean Sea or North Africa. The air comes from the Sahara (as a desert wind) and is dry and dusty, but the term is not used in North Africa, where it is called chom (hot) or arifi (thirsty). In crossing the Mediterranean the sirocco picks up much moisture because of its high temperature, and reaches Malta, Sicily, and southern Italy as a very enervating, hot, humid wind. As it travels northward, it causes fog and rain. In some parts of the Mediterranean region the word may be used for any warm southerly wind, often of foehn type. In the extreme southwest of Greece a warm foehn crossing the coastal mountains is named sirocco di levante. There are a number of local variants of the spelling such as xaroco (Portuguese), jaloque or xaloque (Spanish), xaloc or xaloch (Catalonian). In the Rhône delta the warm rainy southeast sirocco is called eissero. On Zakynthos Island it is called lampaditsa. See solano, ghibli, chili, simoom, leveche, marin.
Industry:Weather
A warm south or southeast wind in advance of a depression moving eastward across the southern Mediterranean Sea or North Africa. The air comes from the Sahara (as a desert wind) and is dry and dusty, but the term is not used in North Africa, where it is called chom (hot) or arifi (thirsty). In crossing the Mediterranean the sirocco picks up much moisture because of its high temperature, and reaches Malta, Sicily, and southern Italy as a very enervating, hot, humid wind. As it travels northward, it causes fog and rain. In some parts of the Mediterranean region the word may be used for any warm southerly wind, often of foehn type. In the extreme southwest of Greece a warm foehn crossing the coastal mountains is named sirocco di levante. There are a number of local variants of the spelling such as xaroco (Portuguese), jaloque or xaloque (Spanish), xaloc or xaloch (Catalonian). In the Rhône delta the warm rainy southeast sirocco is called eissero. On Zakynthos Island it is called lampaditsa. See solano, ghibli, chili, simoom, leveche, marin.
Industry:Weather
Aio. ) A violent northeasterly fall wind on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua and Guatemala. It consists of the cold air mass of a norte that has overridden the mountains of Central America and, being a descending wind, brings fine clear weather. Papagayos are most frequent and strongest in January and February, often lasting three or four days. They weaken between 7 and 10 A. M. And freshen again, sometimes to gale force, in the evening and early night. Compare tehuantepecer.
Industry:Weather
Literally “black wind”; a strong, very turbulent, dry, northeast wind of bora type that blows down mountain ranges in southern Kurdistan in Iran. The reshabar is dry and hot in summer and cold in winter.
Industry:Weather
In Russia, a severe storm, similar to the blizzard and buran, that rages in the tundra regions of northern Siberia in winter. See burga.
Industry:Weather
